2 Esdras 9:23-25

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²³ “Now, if you will let seven days more pass—do not, however, fast during them,^{(A) 24} but go into a field of flowers where no house has been built, and eat only of the flowers of the field, and taste no meat and drink no wine but eat only flowers^(B)— ²⁵ and pray to the Most High continually, then I will come and talk with you.”